Font size issues in copy, move and compression dialogs

Fossi · Post by *Fossi » 2011-09-20, 07:19 UTC

Hello,

I´m using not the standard font and fontsize of the TC.

If you use e. g. the font Segoe UI with the fontsize 11 some characters of the text in the progessbars are cut.

Screenshots here:

http://www.goerick.de/images/Copy_Dialog.png
http://www.goerick.de/images/Font_Configuration.png

This issue is only in the 64-Bit Version of TC.

Hope this helps. :O)

p.s. Thanks for the great work on TCMD 8.

Sektor · Post by *Sektor » 2011-09-20, 07:40 UTC

The thing is that buttons aren't automatically resized to fit text. If author would use WPF, he'd get this behavior for free. The author creates buttons to fit predefined size font. If you get it larger, you're out of luck.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2011-09-20, 07:46 UTC

OMG, WPF and .NET are things that will NEVER be in TC.

Sektor · Post by *Sektor » 2011-09-20, 08:13 UTC

So, how author's gonna solve this problem?
P.S. What is "OMG"?

Flint · Post by *Flint » 2011-09-20, 08:52 UTC

Sektor wrote:So, how author's gonna solve this problem?

Why shouldn't he be able to? Is WPF some God's piece of software given from above? It was written by ordinary people. If they were able to make dialogs stretch, what will prevent Ghisler from doing the same?

Sektor · Post by *Sektor » 2011-09-21, 07:28 UTC

So, is it cool that people pay for program which doesn't fit text on its buttons? Awesome GUI: https://my.syncplicity.com/share/a1onrsndto/Awesome_TC_GUI.png

Flint · Post by *Flint » 2011-09-21, 09:21 UTC

Sektor wrote:So, is it cool that people pay for program which doesn't fit text on its buttons?

Hm… I cannot see any message where anybody said it was cool. Something wrong with my eyes?

It is a problem, nobody argues about it. But what in the world has WPF to do with it? Do you think that WPF is the only cure in the Universe for this problem? Let me disappoint you: you are wrong.

Besides, even if Ghisler will not fix this particular problem, I personally would agree to pay this price for difference between the huge, obese, sluggish WPF and fast, lightweight native interface.

Sektor · Post by *Sektor » 2011-09-21, 09:31 UTC

1. Where do I say that people say it's cool?
2. Where do I claim that WPF is the only cure?
3. Gimme comparison. Did you try to write same app in WPF? What do you base your opinion?

I just tried to say that author doesn't care this ugly text on buttons.

Flint · Post by *Flint » 2011-09-21, 11:28 UTC

Sektor wrote:1. Where do I say that people say it's cool?
2. Where do I claim that WPF is the only cure?

Then what were you talking about? Why these words about WPF? Why asking whether that was cool?

Sektor wrote:Gimme comparison. Did you try to write same app in WPF? What do you base your opinion?

Why should I waste my time? I used WPF applications, and all they had slower interface than native one, and all they loaded much slower because Windows had to load all these huge libraries of .NET and WPF. TC is famous for its high perfromance, while WPF is notorious for exactly the opposite. Porting TC to WPF would mean killing TC and creating a new, different application that will not suit the needs of many TC users.

Sektor wrote:I just tried to say that author doesn't care this ugly text on buttons.

Oh, now I know that telepathy does exist! Author did not say anything yet and you already know whether he cares or not…